[Avodah] Madoff scandal

[T613K at aol.com]

>> He was arrested on Dec. 11 at his Manhattan apartment and charged  with 
securities fraud, turned in the night before by his sons after he told them  his 
entire business was “a giant Ponzi scheme.” <<
 
_http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/business/20madoff.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&em
c=th&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1229836491-//LZCxBf7hAUknRcDlv2/A_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/business/20madoff.html?_r=1&th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&pagewanted
=all&adxnnlx=1229836491-//LZCxBf7hAUknRcDlv2/A) 
 
or
 
_http://tinyurl.com/82rbfy_ (http://tinyurl.com/82rbfy) 


I wonder what the chevra think about Madoff's sons turning him in?   He's a 
major criminal so they did the right thing?  Dina demalchusa?   Or mesira?  
What about kibud av?   What should a person  do if he finds out that his father 
is a goniff?  Minor tax  cheat?  major investment fraud?  
 
PS Is this a hashkafic or a halachic question?  I don't know.   But my 
visceral reaction was:  his own kids turned him in?!  That's  disgusting!
 


--Toby Katz
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